After CNN Reports About Trump-Zelenskyy Deal, Chris Murphy Opens Interview with ‘I Have a Lot of Respect for Your Reporters, But... ‘

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MURPHY: "Wolf, I have a lot of respect for your reporters, but this notion that we don‘t know what Trump is doing is nonsense. Donald Trump has been very consistent for years. He does not want to support Ukraine‘s bid for independence, and he and the people that work for him increasingly are literally just spinning Kremlin propaganda. Today, in one of our hearings, a nominee for the Department of Defense refused to say whether Russia had invaded Ukraine. Why? Because that is now the line of the Trump Administration, to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia. This is an administration that every day is more and more consistently in bed with Kremlin interests. I don‘t know why, but it is making us a laughingstock all across the globe. I don‘t know anything about this deal over minerals, but I know that it will likely benefit U.S. oligarchs, U.S. mineral interests, and that seems to maybe be the defining ethos of our foreign policy today: what makes Donald Trump and his billionaire friends richer? So I think sometimes we think or pretend that this is normal international relations, that this is normal foreign policy, that Trump‘s playing one off against another. No, this is likely just more of the kleptocracy we‘re seeing here at home. This is likely just more of Donald Trump trying to make money for his billionaire friends, and Russia and Ukraine policy has now just fit into that frame."